REPORT: California ‘lawfare’ case against pro-lifers first brought by Kamala Harris ends after nine years

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From Fox News: California authorities on Tuesday announced an end to their nearly decade-long criminal prosecution of an independent journalist and an anti-abortion activist who secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood allegedly selling aborted fetal tissue.

The pair at the center of the legal fight, founder of the Center for Medical Progress David Daleiden and journalist Sandra Merritt, agreed to a “no-contest” plea deal on a single charge, resulting in no fines or prison sentences. California prosecutors had at one point pursued up to 15 felony counts in a case Daleiden said was politically motivated “lawfare.”

“My case is the first and only one that was ever criminally charged by the state attorney general’s office, and it was because of Planned Parenthood’s demand to cover up the information that was on those video recordings about how they’re using partial birth abortions to sell late-term aborted baby body parts at their taxpayer funded mega clinics across the state of California and across the country,” Daleiden told Fox News Digital in an interview on Tuesday.

“I’m no expert, but I definitely think that the election has something to do with it,” Daleiden said when asked why he thinks prosecutors dropped the charges all these years later. Daleiden dubbed the litigation “lawfare,” in a post on X.

Daleiden said in a statement, “After 9 years of unprecedented political prosecution, putting an end to the lawfare launched by Kamala Harris is a huge victory for my investigative reporting and for the public’s right to know the truth about Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby body parts. Now we must all get to work to protect families and infants from the criminal abortion-industrial complex.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wrote, “Glad to see this politically weaponized case is now over. I’d like to look into how much federal money has been funneled into paying for abortions and fetal organ harvesting. The American people do NOT want to pay for that.”

Below is a documentary released in November by the Center for Medical Progress, as they expose Planned Parenthood for selling 6-month aborted fetuses to the University of California.

HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed that he will end federal funding for experiments using aborted baby body parts and to reinstate the Protect Life Rule to ensure taxpayer dollars don’t bankroll the abortion industry.

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